I would appear to be losing the discussion before it even begins, but here I go.

What I assume when I ignore or mute someone: I will never see them again on the site. This (could be) an amazing difference from reddit, one of the most appealing things about hubski and a feature that allowed scalable self-moderation -- all in one fell swoop. Could be great. Instead, when I ignore and mute someone, I just have to hope they'll never respond to me again. Not only will I likely see them on the site often enough; it also won't be under my control at all if I do or not. Right now they have a nice small line through their name^, which is I guess supposed to do something.

How does that make sense? This is a major functionality of hubski that I first took for granted, then noticed was being subverted and assumed was broken. Now I'm told it's in fact how things are supposed to work.

I hate this feature, which sucks, because I don't hate a single other thing about hubski. I understand completely the argument mk made in the op. Allowing me to "moderate" what appears on mk's post is not good either. Doesn't mean we should forsake a different solution.

I'd like to tentatively propose a compromise, although I'm loathe to do so because it won't exactly fix what I consider a huge problem. If people I mute, hush and ignore can still respond to my comments, so be it (although doesn't that sound a little ridiculous?) -- but I should not get a notification. That doesn't make a lick of sense. So kill that and the problem gets ... cut in half, maybe.

^this is especially ironic since we don't have strikethrough functionality in markup yet.